Preferential Attachment with Flexible Heavy Tails

Thomas Boughen

Newcastle Univeristy

Clement Lee

Newcastle Univeristy

Vianey Palacios Ramirez

Newcastle Univeristy

June 4, 2025

Motivation

What Degree Distributions Tell Us

The Problem with Mechanistic Models

Preferential Attachment

Insights on the Preference Function

Building a Model

Recovering Parameters from Degrees

Real World Application

More Than Just the Degrees

Takeaways

Future Work

Thank You

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